Slighia.] xliv. sapindace^e (baker). 427 



Upper Guinea. Guinea, Thonning, T. Vogel ! Barter ! Prince's Island, Mann ! 



Flowers fragrant and fruit edible, and the distilled water of the flowers used as a cos- 

 metic. 



2. B. unijugata, Baker. A tree, 60 ft. high, with strong, woody, gla- 

 brous, grey, terete branches. Petioles 1 in. long, woody, glabrous, with a pair 

 of oblong-cuneate subsessile leaflets at the apex, which are 5-6 in. long, 2 in. 

 or rather more broad, the inner side rather narrower than the outer ; apex 

 bluntish, the edge entire, texture subcoriaceous, both sides glabrous, pale green, 

 the upper one rather glossy, the veins beneath raised. Flowers in copious, 

 sessile, moderately close, simple, axillary racemes, about 3 in. long and i in. 

 broad. Pedicels 2 lines long, slender, glabrous, with a short herbaceous bract 

 at the base. Calyx glabrous, herbaceous, ■§• in. deep, with 5 deltoid lobes that 

 do not reach more than halfway down. Petals 5, whitish, downy, with a 

 large scale. Stamens usually 8, densely grey-villose, twice as long as the 

 ^vx ; anthers oblong. Fruit unknown. 



Upper Guinea. Ambas Bay, Mann ! 



Kacemes, leaflets, and stamens closely resembling those of B. sapida. 



3. B. zambesiaca, Baker. A tree, with strong, glabrous, terete, woody 

 branches. Leaves mostly 2-jugate, the leaflets short-stalked, the lower pair 

 from near the base of the rachis, both oblong-cuneate, 4-5 in. long by about 

 M i». broad ; apex acute ; edge entire, texture subcoriaceous, both sides 

 glabrous, the upper one rather glossy, the veins beneath raised. Flowers in 

 subsessile, simple, axillary racemes, 2-3 in. long, | in. broad, the lower ones 

 3 ~4 together, from a short, acute, herbaceous bract. Pedicels 1-1 \ lines 

 Jon £, slender, slightly downy. Calyx 1 line deep, glabrous, green, herbaceous, 

 Ml 5 deltoid lobes reaching about half down. Petals very minute, whitish, 

 nll °se. Stamens 8, the filaments filiform, slightly villose as in the preceding, 

 m uch exserted. Fruit unknown. 



Mozamb. Distr. West shore of Lake Nyassa, Br. Kirk! 

 Closely allied to the preceding. 



7- ERIOCCELUM, Hook. f. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 400. 



■flowers regular, polygamo-moncecious. Calyx small, quinquepartite, with 

 Wvate or subvalvate divisions. Petals 5, furnished with two scales, which 

 j r e broader than the lamina. Disk saucer-shaped, membranous, free, with 8- 

 10 crenulations and the same number of ribs radiating from the middle. Ste- 

 M* 8-10, inserted inside the disk, centrical, the filaments filiform, exserted, 

 nak ed, the anthers small. Ovary rudimentary in the male flowers, globose, 

 Rfeow ; not seen in the female flowers. Capsule coriaceous, subglobose, 

 2 ld ' 3 -celled, with 3 loculicidal valves, the cells 1-seeded and woolly within. 

 *** attached to the centre of the axis, not seen mature.— Trees. 

 Confined to W. tropical Africa. 



fc erS in sim P le rac emes j f racemomm. 



g*» m panicles with racemose branches 2. K paniculatum. 



\ E. racemosum, Baker. A small tree, with slender, terete, woody 



